Aaron Rykhus - News and info on Office client apps

Thanks for this tip!  That screen was really starting to bug me, and this fix works perfectly.  One typo, on step 3, it should be "...point to New and select Key" instead of "DWORD (32-bit) Value".

This worked perfect for me.  Thank God because I was about to go kill someone in IT.

That worked perfectly, Aaron.  Thank you!

THANK YOU!!!  I've been experiencing this very issue since installing the update.  My system has two accounts - one for use at the office, one for personal use at home.  This has been aggravating to figure out.  Your suggestion worked perfectly.  No more nags.

Thanks alot! this was becoming really annoying!

Brilliant. Love it when workarounds/fixes are this easy (and work!)

Do Microsoft actually test any software they develop?

Is it really acceptable to keep expecting users to hack their registry? I've just had to do this for my 70 year old father who surprisingly wasn't too keen on the idea.

Perhaps if M$ are incapable of vaguely testing their software releases they could at least provide a more user friendly tool than regedit?

How do you apply this fix if the affected user is not an administrator and cannot edit the registry?

YEah so the Administrator installed the office live add in on all the computer, so he has to go to the registry of EVERY COMPUTER to get this to go away.

I may are never going to use this product now that I know Microsoft is a pop up virus. I know I had we had to opt in, but same with more Shareware that contained trojans.

Still broken for us after running this.  The fix works if an administrator is signed in but not the user. Once the user signs back in the message comes back. The keys are added to the registry but it did not make any difference. I gave the user full rights to that section of the registry and it's still FUBAR. ;-)

The user really was signed in, we were using "Run As" to run regedit with administrator rights while the user was signed in as users do not have the ability to run regedit in our environment.

We had to enable their regedit rights and then just exported a working registry key containing the OfficeLive and imported it into a broken PC.

Hope that makes sense.

Thank you, this has been annoying the heck out of me.

This also worked with Office 2003.  Thanks a million to get rid of that blasted popup.

This fixed the message coming back but when I log on to my user account I still get an Explorer window open c:\Program Files\Microsoft containing a folder called Office Live...how do I get rid of this!

Same problem as others have posted.  I updated the REG key under HKCU in the key listed in the fix, but the pop-up still won't go away.  I also tried changing the add-in status under my 'user' account, but since it's a COM add-in, I can't modify it under this account.

I can't believe they haven't issued a fix for this!  Massive FAIL microsoft.

Thanks a lot! Insanity was nearing..

Couldn't have been easier, thanks for this

I kept waiting to receive a patch that would fix this, I mean come on, how annoying is that??  But your fix worked great!  I should have looked for it long time ago.  You would think the big MS would patch this retarded bug already.  Great way to start their Office Live "UX".  Way the go MS!

Worked like a charm. I thought it was only me! Oddly, it took me a few Google search attempts to find this article (I guess it's the only one out there).

I too had this problem and asked MS Office Live Workspace Support what to do. They advised me as follows:

"

To resolve this problem, you need to first uninstall this update from your computer and then if required, install it again.

To uninstall the 'Microsoft Office Live Add-in' from your Windows Vista computer, do the following:

1.      Click "Start", and then click "Control Panel".

2.      Double-click "Programs and Features".

3.      In the list of currently installed programs, select "Microsoft Office Live Add-in 1.3" and then click "Uninstall" or "Remove". If a dialog box appears, follow the instructions to remove the program.

4.      Click "Yes" or "OK" to confirm that you want to remove the program.

In addition to removing 'Microsoft Office Live Add-in', you must remove any 'Office Live Updates' from your computer:

1.      In the "Uninstall or change a program" dialog box, click "View installed updates" in the left pane.

2.      In the list, select the updates that you want to uninstall.

3.      Click "Uninstall". Follow the instructions to remove the updates

After uninstalling the 'Office Live Update' from your computer, restart your computer and re-install the 'Office Live Update'. To install the 'Office Live Update', please visit the link mentioned below:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=91FE0002-EB00-434B-8726-27911326D2B2&displaylang=en

"

I did as instructed and the problem disappeared.

wadim

I am sorry Aaron, I don't understand your explanation. It is my computer and I am the only one who installs anything on it. I was the user who installed the Add-in in the first place and I still got the problem. Live Workspace Support advised me to reinstall it, which I did and the problem disappeared.

Not sure if anyone mentioned this scenario. The original user account in which Office Live was installed on was deleted and no longer existed.  I just followed the steps under my current account (had admin rights) and that solved the problem.

The MS patch doesn't always work on reboot or if you log into a different network.  

Uninstall of windows live update seems to be the only solution

Thanks, thanks, thanks!

This pop-up was turning me crazy

I am not about to go messing with my registry.  I am using XP professional with the latest updates.  This problem is with all of office not just word.  Can I uninstall the update?

This problem is worse because all of a sudden out of nowhere Microsoft Word pops up and gives me this warning, without my initiating it.  And it gives me this pop up screen.  Why is Word doing this.  It has some error message saying that word stopped unexpectantly and tells me it is recovering my files.  I never had it on to start with!  So what the hell is going on, this error started when I made the mistake of downloading this update.

Thanks for this...  solution was just a google away..  I have suffered for 3 months with this!

Thanks for the info!  Saved me a LOT of time trying to figure out a fix myself.

Microsoft folder with Office Live folder inside keeps popping up at start up of Windows...how do I get this one to stop?

Thanks;

There's no nuisance like MS nuisance.

Amazing MS still has not done anything about this yet.

FYI for the less technical,  on Step #4, the name you need to enter is in the Microsoft list not the actual default key values.

Thanks for the tip much appreciated. This fix got rid of a very annoying popup.

Microsoft's software keeps on getting better and better...ugh

Thanks a bunch for the fix. That pop up was such a pain